Charles-xii Quote by William Bolitho

“[Charles XII] seldom took a more active part in the council than to cross his legs upon the table.”

— Voltaire

“And so begins the strangest campaign in military history : a competent general and a seasoned army of eighty thousand men chased like deer,…

— William Bolitho

“All these outposts were broken in,and that which in other histories would have counted as three victories did not delay the progress of Charles…

— William Bolitho

“If he had wished, he could have annexed Denmark; and ended a thousand years of war and history. But Charles had no weaknesses; now…

— William Bolitho

“He fought with Augustus and Peter, not with Russia or Poland. He aimed at full apologies, not conquests.”

— William Bolitho

“He had come to prospect the intentions of Charles towards the French and the Anglo-Austrian coalition, and even if Charles had thrown his jack-boot…

— William Bolitho

“In its greatest moments, memory seems to desert human beings ; only tiny ordinary events leave clear detailed trace. Probably none at the pitch…

— William Bolitho

“Charles arrived around eight a.m. with a squadron of Drabants and began riding along the bank at the water’s edge to inspect the men…

— Robert K. Massie

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

— Victor Hugo

We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic terrorism in…

— Cory Booker

I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need…

— Theodore Roosevelt